Home Tours

Martha's Homes

Draw inspiration from Martha's homes and gardens for your own decorating and design projects.

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Lily Pond Lane

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Martha's Houseplants

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Martha's Crafts Room

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Tour Turkey Hill

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Redecorating Skylands

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Martha's Guesthouse

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Martha's Vegetables

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Editors' Homes

Tour the homes of Martha Stewart Living editors and discover how they created beautiful, comfortables spaces for themselves and their families.

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Alexis's Apartment

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Kevin Sharkey's Home

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Pilar's House

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Gael Towey's Home

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Eric Pike's Home

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Manhattan Loft

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Kitchen Tour

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Home Tour: Urban Colonial

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Suburban & Country Homes

Take a coast-to-coast tour of homes that range from sleekly modern to rustic and refined.

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Green Dream Home

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Portland Green Cottage

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Ojai Villa

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Pearson Home

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Santa Monica Home

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Seal Harbor Home

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Country Home Tour

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Farmhouse Renovation

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Rustic Barn Home

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Country Cottage

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Mid-Century Modern

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Texas Ranch House

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Santa Barbara Home

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Spanish-Style Home

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Home: Southern Colonial

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Westchester Ranch

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A Modern Colonial

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Swedish Accents

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Home Tour: Heartland

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Hollyhock House

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Adamson House Tour

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Modernist Treasure

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Design Pioneer House

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City Homes

Get inspired by how these urban dwellers have personalized their little slices of the city.

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Living with Collections

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Bold Texas Duplex

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New York Apartment

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Manhattan Apartment

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Chicago Row House

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Brooklyn Apartment

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Patterned Pad

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Waterfront Homes

Get a taste of waterfront living with these beach, river, and lakeside homes.

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California Beach House

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Modern Lake House Tour

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House on the Hudson

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Summer Guesthouse

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Beach Bungalow

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Home Tour: Beach Bungalow

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The Owner

Sculptor Elena Colombo used her ingenuity to create a lively getaway in a turn-of-the-century Long Island beach cottage, packed full of found objects, eye-popping colors, and occasional sparks of pure genius.

Colombo sensed there was a very special communal atmosphere in her neighborhood of Breezy Shores, a 31-cottage beach community in Greenport, New York.

The House

Elena now owns the cozy getaway house and a part of the 90 acres it is surrounded by near the shores of the Peconic Bay.

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Organic Chemistry

Elena brings nature's elements indoors and turns them into pure decorating gold: The stools, for instance, are tree stumps from a nearby field that she coated with a latex primer and five layers of fire-engine-red porch-enamel paint. The Manila clamshell light, red coral pillow, and bamboo-inspired glass-topped table are all outdoorsy touches.

Ocean View

A pair of clamshell pendants (above and previous slide) started out as table lamps Elena had no table for, so she snaked their wires through the bases and hung them upside down. She even customized the paint on her living-room walls, adding a water-based polyurethane top coat to get a mirrorlike finish that reflects the ocean. Greenport's mayor designed and built Elena's stylishly staggered corner bookshelf.

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Mother of Invention

About six years ago, Elena remembers wishing she could flip on a fire. So she started a business designing propane-fueled, no-logs-required firebowls.

The Kitchen

Elena stuck to subdued hues throughout the house. Her only exception was the kitchen where she alternately layered on coats of yellow, white, and spring-green paint until she arrived at this radiant result.

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Waste Not Want Not

The blue cabinet was the result of leftover paint from another project.

Waste Not Want Not

As are the red muffin tins propped above the faucet and the red racing stripe Elena applied to the base of her vintage sink. The ribbon detail hides pesky rust spots and the tins provide a pop of color.

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Mass Appeal

Elena's art-hanging strategy is simple: Put up one painting you love, surround it with a few you like, and they'll all look great.

Table Tops

Elena is also adept at arranging tabletop vignettes of yard-sale finds, but she doesn't keep everything on display.

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Blue Mood

Linens are tucked away in an antique cabinet, with glass doors that Elena painted the same blue as the doors.

Window Seats

Elena bought this pair of faux-bamboo armchairs because they made her laugh. The chain above the windows is another collecting score: It's actually a piece of folk art made of thousands of bottle caps sandwiched together. Objects like these do the decorating work for you, so Elena left her windows uncovered, giving her a clear view of Shelter Island, across the bay, and the unruly tufts of seagrass just outside.

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Riverside Cottage

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New England Home Tours

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Bonnet House Tour

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Our Favorite Spaces

From beautiful bedrooms to stunning kitchens, step inside some of our most beloved spaces.

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Tour Outdoor Spaces

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Summer Home Tours

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Bedroom Tours

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Kitchen Tours

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Bathroom Tours

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Tour Kids’ Rooms

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Gardens

Whether your garden is formal or low-maintenance, get inspired by these gorgeous spaces.

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Lotusland Tour

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A Low-Maintenance

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Vizcaya Estate

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Serene Setting

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Garden Tour

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Martha's Herb Garden

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Marney Bean's Garden

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Garden Tours

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Small-Scale Garden

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Judy Tomkins's Garden

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Garden Makeover

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Extraordinary Garden

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Hillside Gardening

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Home Depot

Learn about the inspiration behind the timeless designs in Martha Stewart's collection for The Home Depot.